Development of a Quality Assessment Tool for Outpatient Infusion Clinics: A Literature Review and Pilot Survey.

This study aimed to develop a quality assessment tool for outpatient infusion clinics, as a lack of literature exists on the subject. The authors conducted a literature review targeting studies since 2016 to identify variables that affect patient satisfaction in outpatient infusion clinics. Due to the limited number of relevant studies found, the authors shadowed 2 infusion clinic nurses to capture additional determinants of outpatient infusion clinic quality.

Faculty Sim: Implementation of an Innovative, Simulation-based Continuing Professional Development Curriculum for Academic Emergency Physicians.

Background: Maintaining and enhancing competence in the breadth of emergency medicine (EM) is an ongoing challenge. In particular, resuscitative care in EM involves high-risk clinical encounters that demand strong procedural skills, effective team leadership, and up-to-date clinical knowledge. Simulation-based medical education is an effective modality for enhancing technical and nontechnical skills in crisis situations and has been effectively embedded in undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula worldwide.

MacEmerg Podcast: A Novel Initiative to Connect a Distributed Community of Practice.

Background: Regional knowledge dissemination and information sharing is a challenge among physically divided groups of physicians. Many staff and resident physicians do not have easy access to share clinical and medical education and research information with each other in an academic setting. Our divisions of emergency medicine could benefit from a novel approach aimed at improving overall connection and collaborative engagement.

Towards the development of a national patient transfer document between residential and acute care-A pilot study.

Background: A lack of standardisation of documentation accompanying older people when transferring from residential to acute care is common and this may result in gaps in information and in care for older people. In Ireland, this lack of standardisation prompted the development of an evidence based national transfer document.

Objectives: To pilot a new national transfer document for use when transferring older people from residential to acute care and obtain the perceptions of its use from staff in residential and acute care settings.

Evaluating the effectiveness of asthma treatment in real-life practice.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard methodology for determining the efficacy and tolerability of new treatments. However, RCTs cannot provide information on the effectiveness of interventions as they are used in real life. This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of montelukast, a leukotriene receptor antagonist, in the real-world management of asthma, through a large-scale, retrospective, observational study: the National Montelukast Survey.

Deep cerebral venous thrombosis: an illustrative case with reversible diencephalic dysfunction.

Background: Isolated thrombosis of the deep cerebral veins is rare and its diagnosis can be difficult. Mortality is often high and little is known about the long-term prognosis.

Case Report: We report a 24-year-old woman with akinetic mutism and extensive bilateral thalamic lesions.